14 DAY TRIAL // Collabora's Emil Velikov is announcing today the general availability of the sixth and last scheduled maintenance update for the Mesa 13.0 3D Graphics Library series for GNU/Linux distributions.
Mesa 13.0.6 is here only to backport many of the improvements from the newest stable branch, Mesa 17.0, to the Mesa 13.0 series, which some of you are still using on your Linux distro. However, you should start migrating to Mesa 17.0 as soon as you read this.
"This is the final anticipated release in the 13.0 series. Users are encouraged to migrate to the 17.0 series in order to obtain future fixes," said Emil Velikov, Software Release Engineer at Collabora, in the mailing list announcement.
What's new in Mesa 13.0.6
We've already discussed the changes shipping with the Mesa 13.0.6 maintenance update, so they shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone regularly reading our Linux news right here on Softpedia.
These include fixes for some crashes in the GLX/DRI3 front, the ability for eglQuerySurface to correctly return the geometry when running under X11 with DRI3 enabled by default, and support for ResetNotificationStrategy to match EG's shared context.
The RadeonSI graphics driver for AMD Radeon GPUs was updated to improve support for Tessellation shaders on Stoney and Carrizo hardware, various crashes that affected the Gallium drivers were addressed, and an old r300 regression was fixed for BE hardware.
Additionally, the Nouveau graphics driver comes with compute shader improvements for various nvc0 devices, there's now support for handling Intel GPUs that lack LLC (Last Level Cache) support, and some CTS issues were fixed for Intel Sandy Bridge chipsets.
It looks like both the Intel OpenGL and Vulkan drivers received improvements, as well as the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver, all of which come with a bunch of performance improvements detailed in the full changelog below. Download Mesa 13.0.6 right now from our website.